I first saw Evel Knievel on ABC’s Wide World of Sports ... It was mesmerizing. Evel jumped flames, buses and shark-filled pools, but the failures were always more exciting.

(CNN)-- Evel Knievel ... his stunts perennial ratings-grabbers. Knievel's most famous stunt was probably an attempt to jump the quarter-mile wide Snake River Canyon in 1974 on his rocket-powered ...

that Evel Knievel’s daredevil career began with a 20-foot jump over a crate of snakes and two roped mountain lions; that Evel Knievel was thrown over his handlebars onto the pavement after ...